Today’s Headlines

8:24 AM PDT on August 6, 2020

Speed limit setting needs to change (Forbes)
Bicyclists need better infrastructure (ITS International)
How to advocate for better bike lanes in your city (Bicycling)
Miles of new bike lanes were added to Barcelona streets during shut-down (Bloomberg)
BART rethinking its policing strategies (Transit Center)
Sonoma County cuts some, but not all, road maintenance projects (Sonoma News)
Sea level rise will mess up far-flung places in the Bay Area (SF Chronicle)
California sues Uber and Lyft, again (Insurance Journal)
Palo Alto is really liking its street dining scene (Palo Alto Online)
State laws are working: cities are allowing new housing development (SF Chronicle)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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